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From: "Doris O. Sink" <>
Subject: Re: [MODALLAS] Cheek, Hill, Edmisson
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:58:27 -0500
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In the Cheek pedigree.....Elisha{Eli}Cheek[1795-1858Dallas Co Mo} married
Susannah Bills{1798-1861}Dallas Co Mo...they have a son James Cheek born abt
1833 I have no other data on this James Cheek he could be the James that
married Dorcus Hill. The "Cheek" clan came to Dallas Co Mo from
Lewisburg,Bedford now Marshall Co Tenn.......Susannah Bills and Elisha Cheek
had a son Greshum B. Cheek born abt 1819 Bedford now Marshall Co Tenn. This
Greshum B. Cheek lived in Dallas Co Mo another son Thomas Cheek is listed as
born to Elisha and Susannah Bills Cheek.Doris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Swift" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [MODALLAS] Cheek, Hill, Edmisson


> Don Slack wrote:
> >
> > I have James Cheek, born 1834 TN as the first husband of Dorcus Hill in
my data base. Marriage probably around 1857 or 1858. I have one daughter,
Melissa born abt. 1858.
>
> Thanks Don. The 1860 census has James Cheek with a wife that looks
> like "Dacis" and a daughter Melissa A. E. age 2, two doors before
> Alexander Hill.
>
> Do you (or does anyone else) know if James Cheek died or if he and
> Dorcus divorced, what became of Melissa A. E. Cheek and who she married?
> Could she have taken Dorcus's maiden name Hill? (Long story, but
> there is something in our family lore that suggests Dorcus had a child
> or children that went by the name Hill.)
>
> Another question: Does anyone know the parents of Melissa Ann Hill who
> married John Alexander Guant in 1878? Her obit says she was born in
> 1860 (parents unnamed), and died on Dec. 6 1921. She later married Rober
> Frazier then James S. (Sam) Whitehead. I'm working on a pure hunch here.
>
> > The second husband of Dorcus Hill was John J. Williams, b. 1 Oct. 1836,
d. 11 Jan. 1913. He is buried at Hill Cemetery. The Dallas Co. Cemetery
Book Vol. 3 notes (h/Dorcus Hill next to his name. I cannot find her name
or the name of James Cheek in the Hill listing. I do not know where she is
buried.
>
> My gg-grandmother Martha Ann (Williams) Hoover was the daughter of John J.
> Williams and his first wife Adelia Cordelia Morgan who died about 1863.
> Dorcus was Martha Ann's step-mother. Martha Ann's son Henry Floyd Hoover
> married Exona A. Gaunt, and her son Jefferson Bryant Hoover married
> Exona's sister Julia Guant. The Gaunt sisters were daughters of John
> Alexander and Melissa Ann (Hill) Guant.
>
> Yes, it's curious about that family legend of Dorcus and the Hill
cemetery,
> yet if she's buried there she is not listed. Maybe her grave was marked
with
> just a field stone, or a flat stone that has been covered up, but John
Williams'
> is in good shape. My hunch is that Dorcus buried near him.
>
> --gary
>

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